Amazonbot — What It Is and How to Handle It

Amazonbot is Amazon's web crawler used to improve our services, such as enabling Alexa to answer even more questions for customers. Amazonbot is a polite crawler that respects standard robots.txt rules and robots meta tags.

Operator: Amazon | Type: Advertising | Category: Advertising

Amazonbot is classified as advertising. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects Amazonbot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.